Cyber-safety , Harassment & Terroristic Threats

Cyber-safety, Harassment & Terroristic Threats Killeen ISD Parent & Community Symposium March 21. 2019

Do You Know Who This IS?

Happening All Around Us... • Johnson City Snapchat and FBI • Coach caught in online sting out of hospital, behind bars • 13 Men Arrested In Sex Sting For Online Solicitation - Online sex sting ensnared more than a dozen men, including a U.S. Army captain and a wanted sex offender, officials said • 30 men arrested in Tarrant County sex sting • Woman accused of trying to sell nude photos of girl, 13, arrested

Recent Statistics

With the Growth of the Digital Age… Comes Cyberbullying • Cyberbullying is willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. • It is not limited to the internet although 54% of teens surveyed in 2016 stated they have witnessed online bullying. • It is not limited to gender or age.

Fatal Results ofCyberbullying... • 14 year old male struggled with his weight and was repeatedly bullied at school and online. He posted an “It Gets Better” video on YouTube seemingly trying to convince himself as well as others that his situation would improve. Several anonymous comments on his Formspring page encouraged him to kill himself! He did on September 19, 2015. • 15 year old female committed suicide after experiencing months of bullying and cyberbullying, which included name-calling on Facebook and Twitter. (January 14, 2014.)

Fatal Results ofCyberbullying... • 13-year old kills herself! – On October, 2016, she was cyberbullied through a Snapchat account by a friend’s mother who posed as a young man. • 13-years old male. In October 2013 he took his own life after months of being bullied online. He was teased, taunted, called “strange” online and off.

Texas Penal Code 43.261 – Electronic Transmission of Certain Material Depicting a Minor A person who is a minor commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly: • (1) by electronic means promotes to another minor visual material depicting a minor, including the actor, engaging in sexual conduct, if the actor produced the visual material or knows that another minor produced the visual material; or • (2) possesses in an electronic format visual material depicting another minor engaging in sexual conduct, if the actor produced the visual material or knows that another minor produced the visual material.

Electronic Harassment Disorderly Conduct Includes the use of electronic communication for any of the following purposes: • Making any comment, request, suggestion or proposal which is obscene with the intent to offend • Interrupting phone service with the intent to harass, transmitting any file, document, or other communication which prevents a person from using their telephone or e-comm device. • Threatening injury to person or property of the person receiving the e-comm or family or household members. • Any form of electronic communication that alarms and/or disturbs the receiver (like disorderly conduct) • Email/text bombs or sending consecutive messages that cause denial of service (DNS) • Any forms of threats toward a user or those related to them

Terroristic Threat…. Zero Tolerance and Mandatory DAEP • A terroristic threat is defined in section 22.07 of the Texas Penal Code and occurs when: • A person threatens to commit any offense involving violence to any person or property with intent to: • Cause a reaction of any type to his/her threat by an official or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies; • Place any person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury; • Prevent or interrupt the occupation or use of a building, room, place of assembly, place to which the public has access, place of employment or occupation, aircraft, automobile, or other form of conveyance, or other public place; • Cause impairment or interruption of public communications, public transportation, public water, gas, or power supply or other public service; • Place the public or a substantial group of the public in fear or serious bodily injury; or • Influence the conduct or activities of a branch or agency of the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state.

Cyber-Stalking • A person commits cyber-stalking when he/she knowingly and without lawful justification on at least 2 separate occasions, harasses another person through the use of electronic communication and: • At any time transmits a threat of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint and the threat is directed towards that person or a family member of that person. • Places that person or a family member of that person in reasonable apprehension of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint. (Class 4 Felony)

Once you send it you lose control, but you don’t lose responsibility!

Examples…. • 12-year-old charged with making terroristic threats against schools • Student arrested, threatens drive-by shooting at high school • The 12 year old went to Juvenile Detention and the 17 year old went to Bell County Jail.

APPS to Lookout For

Empower Yourself! • Keep open communication with your children – Know who they are talking to and what apps and places they are visiting online. • Reach out to campus administration and school district police if there is concern about your children or those around them. • File a report – Campus website • There are apps available you can use as well to monitor your children’s usage: Mspy, Life360, Webwatcher, etc. • Adjust privacy settings on your child’s phone. • Require your child to use a family or parent email address to register any accounts. • Ultimately, you pay the bill, make sure your children are safe!

Cyber-safety , Harassment & Terroristic Threats